Coin flips not kind to Cowboys in 2013

[Midswat]

February, 17, 2014

By Todd Archer | ESPNDallas.com


IRVING, Texas -- If you have paid attention to the early mock drafts of Mel Kiper and Todd McShay, you have noticed the Dallas Cowboys have picked 17th in the first round.

We’ll find out for sure this week.

A coin flip inside an Indianapolis hotel this week at the NFL scouting combine will determine whether the Cowboys or Baltimore Ravens will pick No. 16 in the first round. The teams finished 8-8 in 2013 and need the coin flip to decide who goes where.

Maybe it was just an alphabetical thing, or maybe Kiper and McShay know how the Cowboys fared in coin tosses in 2013 in giving them the 17th pick.

The Cowboys won the toss only three times in 2013 and lost it 13. The Cowboys were 1-2 when the won the toss and 7-6 when they lost it.

The Cowboys have never had the 16th pick in the first round. The last time they picked 17th overall they took cornerback Kevin Smith in 1992. In 1990 they used the 17th pick on the NFL’s all-time leading rusher in Emmitt Smith.

So maybe this is a coin flip they wouldn’t mind losing.

 

[Jon88]

The Cowboys won the toss only three times in 2013 and lost it 13.

That's why you call the same side every game. It should have been around 50%.

God what an awful team.

 

[jeebus]

That's why you call the same side every game. It should have been around 50%.

God what an awful team.

Odds are the same either way. Call the same side everytime, or pick one randomly, given enough chances they will both end up 50/50

 

[Jon88]

Odds are the same either way. Call the same side everytime, or pick one randomly, given enough chances they will both end up 50/50

Even this team can screw up what should be 50/50.

And I forgot each team gets a choice to call if they are visiting.

 

[Midswat]

COIN FLIP IS TODAY!!!!

 

[peplaw06]

There is not another team in the NFL that could overcome the rate at which we lost coin flips to win games and make the playoffs. We win even a reasonable amount of those and we would have made the playoffs, not a doubt in my mind.

 

[Omegasupreme]

And the coin flip goes to Dallas. They have the 16. In a related story, Jason is requesting that the 16th pick be used only on nice Canadian players.

 

[Freddie]

There is not another team in the NFL that could overcome the rate at which we lost coin flips to win games and make the playoffs. We win even a reasonable amount of those and we would have made the playoffs, not a doubt in my mind.

Quoted for truth.

Injuries and coin flips. It all adds up.

 

[Jon88]

Quoted for truth.

Injuries and coin flips. It all adds up.

So do excuses.

 

[Future585]

Tails never fails.

 

[Omegasupreme]

So do excuses.

Even with coin flip luck and health, if you can't manage a lead or the clock, you will give the opposing offense and defense every chance to beat you and your lucky health.

 

[Jon88]

Even with coin flip luck and health, if you can't manage a lead or the clock, you will give the opposing offense and defense every chance to beat you and your lucky health.

Right, so it doesn't matter who we sign or draft. They all get thrown in a big bucket of shit called the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

Clearly, Garrett has retaken control of the coin flips.

 

[Omegasupreme]

Clearly, Garrett has retaken control of the coin flips.

:towel

That was awesome TE

 

[marionbarberthe4th]

Watch the ravens take a sick player at 17
Just like the David lefluer/ Ed Reed draft

 

[Midswat]

Wasn't the same draft, dimwit

 

[bbgun]

we finally won something important

 

[marionbarberthe4th]

You're not the same draft

 

[NoDak]

Just like the David lefluer/ Ed Reed draft

wow

 

[cmd34(work)]

Watch the ravens take a sick player at 17
Just like the David lefluer/ Ed Reed draft

1997 vs 2002

In 1997, they took Peter Boulware 4th and we took David LaFleur 22nd.
In 2002, we took Roy Williams 8th and they took Ed Reed 24th.